Quality Engineer | Colorado Springs, CO | On-Site | $95,000-$115,000
Our client, a privately held firm supporting the Department of Defense, is looking to add a dynamic Quality Engineer to their growing team. The Quality Engineer will define, monitor, and improve production and service quality while overseeing supplier quality performance through approvals, audits, monitoring, and corrective action processes. This role is critical in maintaining quality standards, ensuring compliance with applicable regulations, supporting continuous improvement, and partnering cross-functionally with engineering, production, purchasing, and suppliers.
Position: Quality Engineer
Location: Colorado Springs, CO
Work Setting: On-site, Full-Time
Salary: $95,000 - $115,000
Why would someone want to work for our client?
Our client supporting the Department of Defense offers the opportunity to work on meaningful, mission-driven programs that directly support national security and advanced defense technology. This is an organization where innovation, quality, and operational excellence matter. Professionals who enjoy working in a highly collaborative environment with direct visibility to executive leadership will value the impact they can make here.
This role is especially attractive to candidates who want to be part of a growing organization where they can influence outcomes, lead critical programs, and contribute to long-term business growth. The culture reflects a strong sense of accountability, teamwork, open communication, and continuous improvement.
Employee Retention is Paramount. What keeps employees with the company?
- Employees are trusted to lead, solve problems, and help drive results in a fast-paced, high-performance environment.
- In addition to meaningful work, the organization offers a strong benefits package, a 9/80 work schedule with every other Friday off, employer-supported medical and dental coverage, 401(k) contributions, paid holidays, floating holidays, and generous PTO.
What you will be doing as the Quality Engineer
- Establish and implement quality control system and inspection procedures ensuring compliance with standards and regulations.
- Identifies and analyzes root causes and works with production and engineering teams on corrective and preventive actions (CAPA) to resolve quality issues.
- Conducts audits of manufacturing and engineering processes, materials and suppliers to ensure adherence to quality standards.
- Develops and maintains quality documentation including test plans, inspection reports, statistical analyses and all FAI’s.
- Collaborates with engineering, production and support teams to implement process improvements and ensure product reliability.
- Monitor quality metrics such as defect rates, process capability and customer complaints to drive continuous improvement.
- Monitor and manage calibration
- Monitor and manage hazardous chemicals
- Owns NCMR process for non-conforming items hosting a weekly meeting with appropriate department personnel to disposition non-conforming material.
- Work closely with purchasing to process non-conforming material through the RMA process back to the supplier and both initiating and processing through supplier SCARs.
- Conduct vendor site inspections as required.
- Ownership of Vendor Quality Assessment and Monitoring process to include ownership of AVL and all accompanying documentation.
- Prepare monthly reports related to established KPI’s for company and vendors
- Collect Conflict Mineral reporting from approved vendors and generate Conflict Minerals Report (CMRT) for the company.
- Support customer and AS/ISO audits.
What you will need to be successful as the Quality Engineer
- Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical, Industrial, Aerospace, or related Engineering field
- 4-6 years of relevant experience
- Expertise in AS9100D/ISO9001-2015 standards
- Knowledge of inventory processing
- Experience working with internal and external customers
- Ability to perform efficiently with minimal supervision
- Proficient in Microsoft Office Suite
- ERP system experience
- Must be able to interpret mechanical drawings and dimensional data and validate measurements on product received
- Must possess strong organizational/time management skills
- Must have well-organized reporting and logging capabilities
- Effective decision-making and problem-solving ability
- Attention to detail and effective follow-up on issues until resolution is a must
- Ability to work under tight deadlines and adapt to last-minute changes
- Must be proficient in math
- Certification in quality audits with at least 5 years of experience in a relevant field.
- Excellent command of the English language (spoken/written).
- Ability to travel to supplier sites to perform quality audits when necessary.
- Must be a U.S. Citizen
- Able to work on-site
- Eligible to obtain a security clearance if required
Financial Talent Group provides equal employment and recruiting opportunities to all employees, applicants, and recruits for employment for Financial Talent Group and in recruiting employees for its clients, and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws. This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including recruiting, hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leaves of absence, compensation and training.
Benefits:
- 401(k)
- 401(k) matching
- Dental insurance
- Flexible schedule
- Health insurance
- Life insurance
- Paid time off
- Vision insurance
